Re: Decidability / computability of HTML validation

On 18/06/2014 11:23 , Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> BTW: There also exists an old issue regarding the formulation "SHOULD
> ... because it has been proven to be impossible" which has been resolved
> by Ian Hickson as "WONTFIX":
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7277

Well, I will confirm that we are pretty committed to not fixing the 
halting problem, no matter how amusing the consequences would be.

As for the broader decidability problem, I don't know if anyone has 
looked at it closely, but it certainly sounds like a fun CS project.

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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon

Received on Wednesday, 18 June 2014 09:35:55 UTC